Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has defended a comment he made about Australian telecommunications bosses wearing red underpants on their heads.

Here we are again, the ABC promoting what is  a very well disguised anti-Labor anti-green diarrhoea-ed diatribe from the ubiquitous and regularly resurgent Brendan O'Neill... 

I like Lindsay Tanner... I met him a couple of times... He has a passion about things like one loves wet soggy lettuce.

Mitt Romney solves the problem of aircraft windows...

so there I will quote from Ms Albrechtsen...:

Fact number 1: During the past 2000 years, sea levels have fluctuated with 5 peaks reaching 0.6m to 1.2m above present sea level. Fact number 2: From 1790 to 1970 sea levels were about 20cm higher than today. Fact number 3: In the 1970s, the sea level fell by about 20cm to its present level. Fact number 4: Sea levels have remained constant for the past 30 years “implying that there are no traces of any alarming ongoing sea level rise”. Fact number 5 (and I am paraphrasing here): The notion presented by the President of the Maldives that his country will be flooded is bunkum.

A major reassessment of 18 years of satellite observations has provided a new, more detailed view of sea-level change around the world.

From the ABC religious unit...

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